The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced loan interest rates for June 2024, which are effective June 3, 2024. USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) loans provide important access to capital to help agricultural producers start or expand their farming operation, purchase equipment and storage structures or meet cash flow needs.
Read MoreIt is critical to consider the relationship between macroeconomic forces and the balance of global sugar supply and demand when examining sugar markets.
Global economic expansion, along with a world population that is growing at approximately 1% per year (U.S. Department of Commerce, 2024), supports strong sugar demand globally, which typically also supports world prices.
Read MoreTangipahoa Parish’s second solar field took a giant step forward when the parish council on Tuesday night approved Parker Branch Solar’s request to proceed with the permitting process.
A spokesman for Parker Branch told council members the company has met all the requirements to proceed to the permitting phase and council approval was the next step.
Read MoreYear after year, people have started their mornings with Smiley.
His column — a daily collection of funny, odd and nostalgic anecdotes submitted by his many readers and deftly spun into an entertaining whole — captured the spirit of south Louisiana.
After more than 50 years of writing for The Advocate, Smiley Anders died Friday at his home in Spanish Town in Baton Rouge. He was 86.
Read MoreLouisiana High School Finals Rodeo at Burton Coliseum, second go-round results.
Read MoreThe Union Parish Library recently cut the red ribbon on an interesting new project: an educational flowerbed! The Flowertale Garden: The Story of Louisiana Native Trees & Grasses was funded in part by Claiborne Electric Operation Round-Up as an interpretative educational garden about native plants. Stephanie Herrmann, Library Director commented, “When we needed to replace dying landscape plants, we decided to turn an otherwise backdrop flower beds into something that tells a story!”
Read MoreA collection of photos from the first day of the Shreveport Farmers' Market at Festival Plaza in downtown Shreveport, June 1, 2024.
Read MoreWe don't share the same seasons as the rest of the world here in Louisiana; crawfish season being one of them. Time is running out to get the last sacks for the season says Louisiana Ag Commissioner, Mike Strain.
“It’s starting to wind down. A number of the farmers have stopped fishing.”
Read MoreLouisiana is a leading American producer of sugarcane. Sugarcane is a tropical plant that typically has a growing season of 12 months or longer, but our enterprising sugarcane growers and millers have learned how to grow a top crop in just nine. Because we can grow a commercial sugarcane crop in such a short time, we are regarded as “heroes of the sugarcane world” by the international cane community.
What do we make of our sugarcane? The main products are raw sugar and molasses. We make those two products really well and we make a lot of it. In 2023 we produced nearly two million tons of raw sugar and 100 million gallons of molasses. Another product made from sugarcane is rum.
Read MoreIf you're into duck and goose hunting away from the hustle and bustle of city life, but also want your own crawfish farm, then you may be in luck.
A property referred to as a "Hunters Paradise" in Kaplan, Louisiana, is currently up for grabs - if you have the $2.7 million needed to pick it up.
Read MoreClick below for the market report from the latest Tiger Lake Livestock Auction.
Read MoreClick below for the market report from the latest Red River Livestock Auction.
Read MoreClick below for the market report from the latest Kinder Livestock Auction.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $7 million to support the development of wetland mitigation banks for agricultural producers through the Wetland Mitigation Banking Program (WMBP). Through wetland mitigation banks, wetlands are restored, created or enhanced, generating credits that can be purchased by producers looking to compensate for unavoidable impacts to wetlands at another location. The funding is available to Tribes, government entities, nonprofits and other organizations.
“Wetlands provide important ecosystem services, like storing floodwaters and filtering pollutants, while also serving as critical habitat to wildlife,” said USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Chief Terry Cosby.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced it is taking several additional actions to ensure the health and viability of the nation’s livestock and poultry. In the two months since the initial detection of H5N1 in dairy cattle, USDA has worked quickly and in concert with its federal and state partners to better understand the virus and contain the disease and remains committed to seeking additional ways to collect the data needed to better understand and mitigate the risk created by this outbreak.
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